sorry, that last post was a little unclear

in the example, you would have to abandon the search for your identity and resolve the plot ignorant of whether you were brainwashed/manufactured/traumatised

okay, sunandshadow, ill rephrase that to "abandon the search for the illusion of self you had previously developed"

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A Problem Worthy of Attack
Proves It''s Worth by Fighting Back

ok of course, if you were just created, does that make it the illusion of self someone previously developed for you?

The writers on Star Trek: TNG were hired season by season. The writer for the first cliffhanger episode "The Best Of Both Worlds" wrote the first half but his contract expired after that, so he didn''t have to worry about the ending. Then they rehired him so he had to figure a way out of his impossible situation

Two story elements I dislike are the "and then I woke up" ending where the whole story was just a dream and the surprising plot twist thrown into the story just for the sake of having a plot twist.